97-07 Society

Question 1

Trade union decline

Answer 1

-29% union membership to 26%
-didnt repeal tories union legislation of 1979-97
-critical of labour for continuing the torys outsourcing/PFI

Question 2

Privatisation

Answer 2

-air traffic control organisation sold off
-london underground public/private partnership
-RMT expelled from party for donations to more left wing parties

Question 3

Globalisation

Answer 3

-wanted to develop a knowledge economy
-use new tech become more efficient and productive

Question 4

Unemployment

Answer 4

-work for those who can security for those who cant
-trained, guided different groups into work
-1998 national minimum wage introduced
-tax credits for people with low income/handicaps

Question 5

Women in government

Answer 5

-1991, 120 female mps which 101 of were labour
-margaret beckett foreign sec 2006-07

Question 6

Women and families

Answer 6

-all 3 and 4 year olds got 12.5 hours a week of free nursery education by 2007
-women given pension credits when unable to work due to caring

Question 7

Women in work

Answer 7

-36% fell to 24% ftse 100 companies with no women on the board
-women still only earned 87% of what men did
-labour undervalued womens work in the home

Question 8

Aim to end social exclusion

Answer 8

-sure start centres provided guidance for families with children starting school
-child poverty reduced by a quarter 1999-2005
-connexions services advised on post school choices
-aimed for 50% of young people to go to uni

Question 9

Youth crime

Answer 9

-introduced ASBOs which limited what the defendant could do
-aimed to prevent youth graffiti/vandalism
-46% went to u17s by 2005

Question 10

Migration

Answer 10

-skilled workers arrived from central/eastern europe
-asylum seekers from afghanistan and iraq

Question 11

Improvements in multiculturalism

Answer 11

-2002 paul boateng first black cabinet minister
-notting hill carnival attracted millions
-mosques key feature of towns/cities

Question 12

Remaining racial tension

Answer 12

-macpherson report 1998 institutional racism in met police
-bbc chairman greg dyke said workforce were hideously white in 2001

Question 13

July 7 attacks

Answer 13

-july 7 2005, 52 killed by 4 suicide bombers in london
-3 of them british born citizens
-mohamed sidique khan community worker in yorkshire

Question 14

July 21 attacks

Answer 14

-july 21 2005, 4 more bombers, failed to explode
-22 july, jean charles de menezes wrongfully shot by police
-4 men eventually convicted, british citizens

Question 15

Reaction to terrorism

Answer 15

-britains foreign policy had alienated british muslims
-2006 sec of state for local gov and communities made
-national identity card 2006, controversial
-2006 terrorist act, time suspects could be held without charge reduced 90 to 28 days

Question 16

Opposition to migration

Answer 16

-2001 poll immigration seen as an issue by 3% of voters, 2007 rose to 30%
-daily express associated migrants with crime/taking jobs
-migrationwatch focused on dangers of large numbers of immigrants arriving, andrew green